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TIL Thorium as an alternative much safer nuclear fuel is abundant and can power the earth cheaply.

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nXV9 TIL Mahatma Gandhi had deep disdain for black people, once describing them as ‘only one degree removed from the animal,’ and 'whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness".’
WpVL TIL if a man dies vertically or on his face, he will get an erection after death. This is known as ‘Angel Lust’.
N06J TIL that the Irish Parliament once passed a bill of attainder requiring thousands to go to Dublin for sentencing for their supposed disloyalty. Viscount Mountjoy was in prison in the Bastille at the time; he was ordered to break out and get to Dublin, or else face being drawn and quartered.
KYJ76 TIL The inventor of Science Fiction was a man born in the Second Century AD.
KYMW4 TIL that when Mount Everest was first measured it was found to be exactly 29,000 feet tall. It was reported as 29,002 because surveyors worried the public would assume 29,000 was merely an estimate.